Lack of self-awareness at the ABC

But if that despair is leading to a push for Rudd to return, the gallery tells us so through anonymous sources. A former editor-in-chief of The Age wrote last week :

I’m not suggesting journalists are making stuff up, but we do have to take it on trust that they are not doing so.
— Business Spectator, 20th February, 2013

Even if they’re not making it up, are they beating it up? I spoke to some senior gallery correspondents, off the record. They all agreed that the angst in Labor ranks is real, but that some stories are pretty thin.

Yes – that is what you think – anonymous sources are telling us that the media relies too heavily on anonymous sources.

19 Responses to Lack of self-awareness at the ABC

The media’s use of more than weekly polls is nauseating. Of course it’s a huge beat-up, mainly to boost circulation, particular by the Murdoch Press.

I’m confident that most people would applaud legislation banning opinion polls between elections. It’s distracting for the PM to be constantly bombarded with this rubbish. The election’s over six months off yet. Let them concentrate on governing, which, when not being distracted by these media-driven inanities, they are doing pretty well.

That’s from an informed source, former Labor pollie, and definitely anything but anonymous.Gary Johns in The Australian. Get a subscription, it’s worth it – you get access to plenty of good articles, although it’d be worth it just to annoy Hammy.

Sauces for courses. Anon sauces are as good as any other. Julia will probably have sauce with her pies out west.

Oh, the owner told Clarence the clocker / The clocker told jockey McGee / The jockey, of course, passed it on to the horse / And the horse told me. – From the film “Riding High” (1950) Johnny Burke / James Van Heusen.

I point out that to MW, their sources are not anonymous. Just because they feel no need to identify the sources to you, dear taxpayer, so you can assess the veracity of the source is not relevant.

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